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Joint Air Ground Integration Center Operations 17 April 2019 ATP 3-91.1/AFTTP 3-2.86 2-9 RESPONSIVE DIVISION FIRE SUPPORT 2-22. The JAGIC ensures integration between division airspace use and the division commander’s priorities and risk guidance for Army operations. The goal is to enable coordinated and responsive fires in support of division operations through continuous collaboration that begins once the JAGIC receives a call for fire. INTEGRATING CAS AND JOINT FORCE AIR COMPONENT COMMANDER ASSETS 2-23. JAGIC airspace personnel coordinate and deconflict each air mission that enters division-controlled airspace. Prior to providing aircraft routing instructions, procedural controllers review previously planned airspace and active fire missions to determine deconfliction for routing aircraft to the target area. Informal ACMs and ACAs are established or activated, if required, in order to safely route aircraft to and from the target area. Once the JAGIC has deconflicted division airspace, procedural controllers direct aircraft to the contact point where they are handed off to the controlling JTAC. JTACs deconflict air missions with BCT- level fires, UAS, and rotary-wing operations. Once mission complete, aircraft proceed out of division- controlled airspace in accordance with routing instructions from JAGIC procedural controllers. The JAGIC deactivates or cancels ACMs and ACAs activated for the mission. INTEGRATION OF ARMY AIRSPACE USERS 2-24. Army commanders exercise mission command to control Army airspace users (commander to commander) while airspace elements (including JAGIC airspace personnel) control airspace use. This is a subtle but important distinction. The Airmen in the JAGIC may have both tactical authority and airspace control authority over JFACC assets in division-assigned airspace. However, Army personnel in the JAGIC do not normally have authority to task Army aviation. Army commanders utilize mission orders to direct the employment of Army assets, while airspace element personnel direct the best use of the airspace. To exercise mission command and make the best use of airspace, Army commanders have the authority to direct the maneuver of all Army airspace users in their designated areas of operations. JAGIC airspace element personnel are responsible to the division commander for airspace control over a volume of division- assigned airspace and to operate in accordance with established procedures, the ACP, and other relevant airspace directives. Army airspace users operating in a brigade area of operations will normally be under the procedural airspace control of the brigade. JAGIC airspace element personnel continuously coordinate with the brigade ADAM/BAEs to ensure that airspace control over the entire division area of operations is integrated. When a division assigns part of its area of operations to a subordinate brigade, it inherently delegates airspace management responsibilities. However, the division airspace element must integrate all airspace users over the entire division area of operations and retains responsibility for airspace control. (See FM 3-52, for additional information on airspace control roles and responsibilities by echelon.) RISK MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS FOR AIRSPACE CONTROL IN THE JAGIC 2-25. Commanders and operations officers manage risk by designing control measures and procedures that integrate airspace users while reducing the necessity for deconfliction. This enables ground force commanders to mass fires and effects. Airspace control in the JAGIC is paramount to divisions’ integration efforts. By advising and monitoring airspace users, fires, and maneuver assets, Army and Air Force airspace controllers can procedurally control the division’s assigned airspace. Below are some risk management considerations for airspace control: Location of airspace information center (AIC). During planning, the division airspace element will determine the best location for the AIC. However, as current operations progress, the JAGIC should make recommendations to the assistant chief of staff concerning AIC displacement. For an explanation of the AIC see paragraph 2-37. Sustainment risks. Commanders manage risk to forces by developing sustainment plans with fixed and rotary wing assets reducing the demands on ground forces’ logistics. The JAGIC must be ready to integrate these assets quickly without disrupting the scheme of fires. Training the procedures for immediate airspace requests is essential to fires and sustainment integration.